End of the runway at Alpine 46U after landing, the runway is 5625ft long and only 35ft wide, you get a great sense of speed on landing, a long careful approach needed, everything looks slow until you hit the runway and realise how fast it's going, nice scenery.

Flying over Misfits east of Dayton, Nevada, over Stagecoach Valley, the 1961 film Misfits and the desert scenes where filmed there, not west of Pyramid Lake or Spanish Springs. It's used for air sailing and gliding.

East of Dayton over Stagecoach Valley, Google maps designates the white desert there as Misfits named after the 1961 film, some key sequences in the film where filmed in Dayton and Stagecoach with much of the film made near Pyramid Lake and the desert to the west, there is a dimmed photograph on the internet showing the making of the film that shows the mountain range of Fort Sage mountains down to Turtle Mountain, it was taken at dusk hence the dimmed appearance of the photograph, the sun sets to the west in exactly the same orientation as shown in the photograph, west of Pyramid Lake was the location near Calneva Lake. I can recognise that place using a flight simulator.

Flying over Kennedy Intl KJFK airport at 18,000 feet, 109 minutes after take off from London City EGLC, 1 hour 49 minutes.
Refuelled to full tanks at 33,000 feet altitude after take off before supersonic.

Approaching Ibn Batouta GMTT, Tanger, Morroco. Setting up for landing with Morroco on the left and Gibralter on the right, known as the Straight of Gibraltar, ancient Greeks knew it as The Pillars of Hercules where Jason and the Argonauts of legend sailed through the rocks that appeared to open as if by magic, caused by an optical allusion as the boats sailed down the cost the gap between the rocks appeared to open as they approached.

Landing at Tenerife South at airport Reina Sofia GCTS at runway 08, heading true north *73 plus magnetic variation = *78 ILS heading *78
If anyone wants to learn the difference between runway and ILS headings for setting the course on landings try practising at runway 25 (ILS 25) at Bodo Norway (ENBO), the ILS is deliberately crooked because of the hill to the right.
Tip: I set the autopilot heading off and set the heading selector on HSI to ILS heading and course selector on HSI to runway heading, when I get the ILS centered and HSI course is traight up it's on track track, can do maualy landings or AP Approch mode. Calculate the runway heading using true north+variation, I don't use Microsoft's in build airport info, it only gives ILS headings and some folk thing it's the runway heading.

Cockpit view in flight showing SR71 altitude and speed, the fuel flow is around 17,000 PPH (pounds per hour) at 85,000 feet at over Mach 3, at 80,000 the fuel flow is around 26,000 PPH, at FL 20-30 around 40,000-50,000 PPH.
Takes fuel to get to 85,000 feet, around 20,000 pounds or more, with spikes fully open the air mixes with fuel in a ramjet causing a sort of gas combustion. In other words it used to literally fly on air.

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